Carl Worth is the lead of the technical rope rescue team, ROPE, of Clackamas County Search and Rescue. He is a Rescue3 Rope Rescue Technician Instructor Candidate training under Matt Adams, of Crux Rescue. His rope experience started in 2008 as a recreational rock climber and expanded into technical rope rescue with Search and Rescue in 2017. Carl has an engineer's love of math and physics, but he has a teaching style that presents complex topics in a way that is simple and intuitive to grasp with minimal reliance on memorizing mathematical equations.
Courses are available only to current members of Clackamas County Search and Rescue. If you are interested in registering for any course, please contact Carl Worth.
The Rope Rescue Operator course teaches the rope knowledge and skills required by personnel to operate safely and effectively as a member of a Rope Rescue Operator team. Rescuers will be taught a range of core rescue techniques to operate safely. Techniques covered on the course include safe working at height, work restraint, fall arrest, casualty care and packaging, team-based pick-offs, and team-based raising and lowering systems, amongst others.
The Rope Rescue Technician course builds upon the techniques taught at RRO, and enables Technicians to work in more complex environments, using more advanced rope rescue techniques. Techniques taught include the use of artificial frames, edge transitions, offsets and non-reeving highlines. This will give a Rope Rescue Technicians a greater range of rescue solutions.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email Carl Worth <carl@knotmuch.net>